Digital Vault

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Permalink Reply by Adina Sullivan on April 19, 2008 at 3:23pm

This is a great resource. Thanks for the heads-up Nancy!

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Permalink Reply by John Hendron on April 19, 2008 at 8:50pm

Looks excellent. My colleague at work has put together a Moodle course for teaching the use of digital (online) primary sources and has a wiki page devoted to other resources.

http://www.glnd.k12.va.us/wiki/index.php/Handouts/PrimarySources

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on April 19, 2008 at 9:23pm

You might be interested in my blog, A Very Old Place. You'll see some of the ways we've used primary sources in the classroom.

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Permalink Reply by James Dykstra on April 19, 2008 at 10:08pm

I was intrigued by this site. If you take a moment and contrast it with a similar project by the National Archives of Canada at http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/website/index-e.html, you'll see that the U.S. example has lots of Flash, and pizazz. The Canadian example is solid, fairly linear, and a bit dull (but some say that's us Canadians). I guess what I've been wondering about is this: While the U.S. site is a way cooler place to just browse, which place makes it easier to get the content you're looking for? I've looked at both sites and thought the Canadian was the better one for finding information, but maybe that's my national pride getting in the way. I find the American version a little overwhelming, but could that reflect the fact I'm not fifteen anymore?

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